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I'm a big fan of the author's other books, Think Python and Think Complexity (haven't had the time for Think Stats), I found them more understandable than most other books that purport to teach people of the same skill level.

I'm hoping this will be as good, but all the negative comments here leave me skeptical. Perhaps this is the crowd that would enjoy K&R C more than Think Python. The former is more of a reference to me than an introductory tome. Perhaps everyone here is just better at math than I am.
A quote from the article (about antidepressants): “Medication can help some ..."

Not according to science.

Article: http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fj...

Quote: "Meta-analyses of antidepressant medications have reported only modest benefits over placebo treatment, and when unpublished trial data are included, the benefit falls below accepted criteria for clinical significance." (emphasis added)

Translation: "If all legitimate scientific studies of antidepressants are examined at once, the outcome is that antidepressants do not work."

Analysis: The drug industry has funded many antidepressant studies over the years. Those that support the efficacy of antidepressants are published. Those that do not support the efficacy of antidepressants are not published. It's a simple, effective scheme, and until now it has worked -- most people think antidepressants work.

The study linked above did something clever -- they performed a meta-analysis of all the studies -- those that were completed and published, and those that were completed and then thrown away. The end result is that antidepressants do not work, i.e. are no more effective than a placebo.

But because practicing psychologists don't care about science, this study might as well not have been published -- it might as well have been thrown out along with the many studies that cast antidepressants in a bad light, studies that were suppressed.

Someday psychologists will be forced to adopt the evidence-based practice standards that govern the practice of medicine, but until that day arrives, they will continue to lie to their clients.
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How do you get downvote abilities? I had them on my old inactive account from a few years ago but not this one. Is there a karma quota or something?
I thought I touched on that. If a decision was made aware of the options, and a suboptimal choice was found because of specific constraints (budget, technical, whatever), document that and move on. You're doing the best you can with the project constraints. Not being aware (or even doing the research) and ending up with suboptimal code when it wasn't necessary is the problem.
I was hoping to see underline.
Just checked out the site--love the survey-A/B concept. Is this a pivot for RootBuzz or another project?
Behavior change is belief change
Which is wrong. I'm not doubting that anyone's high school was awesome, just that Ogama is projecting his experience as motive to starting a thread.

He never made a claim that he had an awesome high school experience, and I'm not doubting that claim.
It took until the early 1990s for COBE to detect anisotropy in the cosmic microwave background radiation. We still haven't detected gravity waves. Why should we necessarily have seen pixelation by now? Rather, the lack of detection of such pixelation sets limits on certain parameters in the model, but more work could find patterns which weren't seen before.
This only shows (it seems) that relativitic physics (meaning physics where some form of relativity holds, not necessarily einstenian special relativity) can be accomodated for the possibility of speeds faster than c, not that this possibility actually holds.

So the question still stands; only the argument that lightspeed is a limit because it is incompatible with relativistic physics should be abandoned (stated like this, it seems a fairly weak argument anyway).
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Ah -- so, users can create Stripe accounts during the OAuth flow.

Check out https://stripe.com/docs/connect#payments-flow, for example. A logged-in user will see the page on the left, while a new user will see the page on the right.

That make sense?
What do you consider a Kepler core? The Epiphany cores are dual issue RISC processors that run independent C/C++ tasks.
We don't have any projects in Ruby at Mozilla that I'm aware of. Sorry, can't be all things to all people.
Of course. I use it for 5 machines. Plus game club members = another 2 dozen - share an art folder.

I use no USB thumbdrives any more, no disks, no media of any kind. Haven't for two years now. Dropbox is enough. NOt great, but enough.
This will always be a risk of 'riding along' on an ISS resupply mission. Basically the main payload is on an ISS intercept orbit, so your margin of error is a lot lower, and the delta-v needed to get to a different orbit so that you could boost beyond the ISS without crossing its orbit is high.
Reminds me of "Permutation City" by Greg Egan.
At the speed of light, there is no time; time stops. You can't halve 0.
What I said wasn't meant to be construed as a universally applicable statement, quite the opposite. It's highly specific to the industry. Music isn't the same as software. According to Maslow's hierarchy of needs [1] (which is a theory, admittedly) music is used to self-actualize, which is less important than, say, food and water (which are physiological needs). The only value to music is the value the listener places on it. It's not really necessary for everyday life.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs
I have a love-hate relationship w/ column prefixes like you describe. One on hand, they make searching the codebase much easier, and if you can search the codebase, you can refactor w/ confidence.

On the other hand, it bakes the schema into every single column reference, and that makes schema changes more costly--either you cruft up your database with now-misnamed columns, or you fix all references, or you avoid changes in the first place, and the business drifts further and further from the database model.

My compromise position at places that do use column prefixes has been, column prefixes on base tables, views and/or stored procedures for client access, and no prefixes exposed to the client.
If physics is like that then that would actually be of great interest to physicists. Most models rely on space being homogenous and having the same properties regardless of direction and speed.
The argument seems to be that if the smallest workings of space/time exist in discrete points rather than being continuous, then we must be in a simulation, if I understand correctly. Personally I find discrete math much more natural and it's the continuous math that seems imaginary to me. So a discretized universe seems perfectly natural to me, and hardly evidence that it is being simulated.
I'm one of the founders of Manymo.

I feel your pain re: trouble running emulators for dev work. We built Manymo to address this pain. While it does not (yet) emulate custom android builds, like the dreaded HTC Sense builds, it does give me an emulator faster than I can spin one up locally.

I typcially develop with a phone and a tablet but using Manymo I can spin up a larger tablet or an odd-sized phone emulator to check how my Fragment code is laying out on a variety of device configurations. All of that without soaking up memory on my laptop. It helps testing against OS versions too. We also find it extrememly helpful when working with designers that do not have the SDK setup. The list goes on but suffice to say we are excited to see more people use this tool.
It's almost impossible to overstate the disruption Stripe is causing, and this is taking it to a whole other level.

We have an app (http://tulasoftware.com) that yoga studios use to run their business and we're able to compete with some very well funded companies in no small part because of our Stripe integration.

We've been guiding people through the stripe account creation process though, and having them manually enter their API keys. This basically eliminates the need for any manual intervention at all.

So awesome.
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Anyone know what they plan / state they'll use the money for?
You could try to purchase the OS, but I'm sure it would cost billions of dollars, dwarfing your savings.

You can buy a license for Apple built computers, but that isn't valid on a hackintosh and is part of the old business model anyway. Now Apple sells upgrades to existing licenses, which you get when you buy the Apple hardware.

If you could buy a copy of the OS to use as you wish, I'd have no problem with a hackintosh. Much like I can do whatever I wish with a hard drive or network card.

I suppose in the end, ethically, a hackintosh is the equivalent of a GPL violation. You haven't physically deprived anyone of a material possession, but you have benefitted by using their intellectual work against the license they have chosen.

(At least you aren't leaving some poor guy in a restroom with no toilet paper.)
Since it's already elevating, how hard would be to make it adjustable height up to a standing position?
This is a great feature, but before I start sending my clients to Stripe to create an account, they need to build a portal designed for that kind of user. "Payments for Developers" doesn't sound right to them.
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http://arxiv.org/pdf/1210.1847v1.pdf
Oh get the hell off that horse.

> "So I've made a new rule: unless you've raised money, are bringing in substantial revenue, or have a sizable active user base, don't call whatever you're building a startup."

So... bootstrapped companies can't be startups? What about a funded, B2B service that is bringing in millions in revenue, but only has two clients signed up?

> "Every time you introduce your product to someone as a startup, you set an expectation for where the conversation is going next: your funding, revenue, user base, that sort of talk."

No it doesn't. It only does if you interact solely with people in a very specific subset of entrepreneurs. You know the type - the people who are always at "startup parties" and hanging out in incubators and coworking spaces all day. There is a large, large world out there where the word "startup" doesn't automatically lead a conversation someplace.

And even within that scene, I have rarely run into situations where "startup" automatically steers the conversation towards funding, userbase, and revenue. Methinks the author hangs out with the wrong people.

> "someone tells you they're doing a startup, you ask for details, and it turns out to be pretty nascent. Kind of a let down, right?"

No, because I haven't pigeonholed the word "startup" into something incredibly, and to be blunt, absurdly specific.

> "The more we throw around the word "startup", the less of an impact it has when we actually want it to matter."

Because it doesn't matter. The word "startup" is a general descriptor for the nature and state of your business. If you are throwing that word around for "impact", you are no better than these other people you complain about.
I've found the official Intel-based emulator images (2.3+ only) plenty fast. Details here[0] but the tl;dr is:

* Open SDK manager, install Intel image for your preferred SDK version and the "Intel Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager" from the Extras section

* Find the HAXM installer in SDK/extras and run

* Create Intel-based AVD

[0] https://developer.android.com/tools/devices/emulator.html
I don't think this is a particularly good standard. If anything, I find startups at the very early stages (well before serious funding) the most interesting ones to consider. What am I to call a company like this? The whole point is that it's a start--that's why it's a startup!

I think the term should move in the opposite direction: consider even the most nascent of companies "startups", but stop calling large, well-funded and well-staffed companies like Twitter startups. There is far more difference between Twitter and a funded 10-person company than there is between that same 10-person company and a brand new two-person venture.

Maybe it's a function of whom you talk to, but I've found the conversation about a startup does not proceed to "your funding, revenue, user base, that sort of talk". It proceeds to talking about your product, your idea and your technology. Sure, after that, people might ask about users and revenue, but they understand if that's in the future. On the other hand, if your idea or technology is sufficiently interesting, the topic often just stays on that.

Now, if you're just writing an iPhone app with no real plans to grow it into a company, or you just started a project for fun, maybe you shouldn't call it a startup. But if you plan to grow and get significant funding or revenue, you are a startup--just maybe a temporarily inconvenienced one :).
I think it leaves MS comfortably in the valley of failure that they've been trying to climb out of for quite a while now.

"Teetering on the edge of failure" far from being overly pessimistic, is actually far too generous. By any reasonable business measure (marketshare, mindshare, profitability) WP7/7.5 has been a dramatic, obvious failure. If not for the enormous will (read: $$ reserves) of MS, it would have died a well-deserved (from a business perspective) death.

NOTE: I am not commenting on WP7/8's technical or aesthetic merits, nor on the overall consumer benefits of having a robust third competitor to iOS/Android. In all of those regards, WP8 should definitely stick around; but we could have said the same of WebOS (and many did).
"Programming language paradigms" are meaningless (2005)
Linode is Xen virtual machines and Edis is OpenVZ based containers.
The Era of E-Sharing
Yes, agreed! We definitely got carried away with the marketing lingo and we apologize!

This was our thought process:

We have received a lot of negative feedback regarding this number so we want to explain the meaning and motivation. A single number can never characterize the performance of an architecture. The only thing that really matters is how many seconds and how many joules YOUR application consumes on a specific platform.

Still, we think multiplying the core frequency(700MHz) times the number of cores (64) is as good a metric as any. As a comparison point, the theoretical peak GFLOPS number often quoted for GPUs is really only reachable if you have an application with significant data parallelism and limited branching. Other numbers used in the past by processors include: peak GFLOPS, MIPS, Dhrystone scores, CoreMark scores, SPEC scores, Linpack scores, etc. Taken by themselves, datasheet specs mean very little. We have published all of our data and manuals and we hope it's clear what our architecture can do. If not, let us know how we can convince you.
Global GDP will take a hit if this trend takes shape in a meaningful way ...
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Same for Asia. I'm reckon the revenue generated by expanding their services overseas would be well worth the additional headache.

Can anyone more knowledgeable (who knows about this industry or finance) enlighten me regarding what could be the possible reasons that may be stopping this company from doing so despite all this demand?
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EBay rolling out "The new eBay" (hint: its personalized)
We are adding servers right now. In the meantime here is a short screencast of an earlier version in use: http://vimeo.com/48571832
It looks cool, but the marketing doesn't address the fact that most people have laptops and desktop monitors on their desks. Nobody will want to take their desktop+laptop off the desk everytime they go into their bed - 7 inches of height (collapsed) isn't going to cut it.
Interesting, but it looks like it won't support anything that is higher than the bed, such as a big monitor.
Calling your little side project a startup makes you look naive. That's why I prefer using "project" in most of these cases. When the OP says I'm working on my own thing right now, I'd replace thing with project.
Apparently they are big in rental markets. Apartment managers love the low fees on reasonably large transfers.
When I talk with somebody who is working on a real business, they usually are most excited to talk about "what they do" rather than spitting out labels. I see so many people (especially on HN) say "startup(s)", when they are just referring to a 1/4 done side project with no users.

I feel the word "startup" has been dragged through the mud by wantrepreneurs. I have mostly removed it from my vocabulary.

I'm building a company.
(1) The color (or lack of) has nothing to do with the usability. In fact, if color does aid in use then you probably have a larger accessibility problem.

(2) I think you are biasing your opinion too much toward the first-use of an application. Yes, associating icons and labels does aid in learning and first-use, but has little effect on usability long term for regularly used applications. With that said, the in-app icons you are referring to are typically straight forward (add, search, remove, etc) and, in my opinion, are understandable on first use as well. There are occasionally poorly designed third party apps that do have obscure in-app icons. But, this is not typical of the platform.
I'm not qualified to evaluate how much money a modern chip startup needs to launch a product. But it's worth noting that the Kickstarter pitch doesn't mention the millions the company has raised so far (apologies if I missed that part).

>> Kickstarter funds are "cheap" (no dilution & no debt)

Of course they are, and that's kind of my point. Raising money from unsophisticated unaccredited investors without providing full disclosure or even a contract in exchange is obviously a great source of capital. However, I'm not convinced pitches like this would withstand scrutiny by the relevant regulators if they were not asleep at the switch.

I didn't mean to be overly critical of the project. I wish them all due success. That doesn't mean I can't dislike the Kickstarter campaign. (I would similarly dislike AMD raising funds on Kickstarter, even if I liked the project.)
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One of the more customized Bootstrap deployments I saw so far. While I like Bootstrap in general, I don't find the new eBay design very visually pleasing. There are inconsistencies all over the place and the contrasts are not the easiest on the eyes on my screen.

The Pinterest style image feeds can work in some cases (probably most for the items being sold on eBay) but not others. Imagine you are looking for RAM modules, harddisks or similar items which all look the same. A table with data showing capacity etc. is essential in that case. Also ordering is essential.
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But if you add a little heart, it makes it less demeaning.. right?

These comments are embarrassing. Writing is a great exercise and more people should do it outside of attacking people for their blog posts on things they're obviously passionate about and working towards a better solution for.
I don't know about the other authors, but I know the Cory Doctorow makes his books available as e-books for free. So, while you may feel that allowing people to pay what they want is disturbing, I know at least one of the authors feels that price fixing as equally disturbing. So if it comes down to your feelings and the feelings of the author, I'm going to side with the author.

Also, it's not that they have "no value." It's that they have a different value to different people. To me, this is inherit with the idea of "culture." I completely disagree with the idea that you can put a fixed price on a piece of culture. I'd say it's offensive to even talk about culture in relation to money - like you can put a price on it.

I don't see this as paying for the culture of the book, myself - I never have (when buying books). I see this as paying the author for the effort they put into their creation - but not paying for the creation itself (because paying for the creation assumes that it is now mine, and it isn't).
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Pure semantics and hair splitting.
I actually agree with you, both your content and your feed design is actually much better. How's the site performing wrt conversion?
If you can engineer transmission of information faster than the speed of light, you can violate causality. On a small scale, that means acausal computing in which results can be generated before inputs, thus allowing for infinite processing power per unit time. On the large scale, outright paradox in the form of event chains that prevent their origination. These outcomes would be problematic to account for in our understanding of physics, to say the least, and seem like a better argument than others for assuming that FTL and all things that would enable it (e.g. sufficient amounts of negative mass) cannot exist.

It remains an interesting challenge to prove that more rigorously, of course.
It's another project
What does this have to do with the SDK being available?
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It's been discussed in every Stripe thread in existence.
> So... bootstrapped companies can't be startups? What about a funded, B2B service that is bringing in millions in revenue, but only has two clients signed up?

I think the missed the "or" in "raised money, are bringing in substantial revenue, /or/ have a sizable active user base". Your B2B example is perfectly fine. And I think some of your other points are based on this misunderstanding, too.
Very true.

Once upon a time, there was a used car dealer in Austin that unlocked all their cars when they opened in the morning. And the only time a salesguy would ask "Can I help you?" (anyone hate "What can I put you in?" too?) was when they were walking by you after talking to someone else. And they took "I'm still looking right now" for an answer.

I felt really bad when I couldn't find something I liked there.
I agree with you about preferring a discrete model of the universe. This may be a common affliction among programmers. For some apparently good theoretical reasons, though, it's a minority opinion among physicists.

There is at least one notable figure who explores the idea: Nobel laureate Gerard 't Hooft. Here's a recent starting point: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=5022
Cool! I never noticed.
They tend to classify whole albums, which would be an average of 10 songs. So, 100,000 albums. Of that, there are going to be some artists with multiple albums. You can probably estimate about 70k-80k.
Here is the mishap report http://goo.gl/GuHG5
I mentioned this because double engine failures due to separate causes do actually occur, although rarely.

Short version: The right engine compressor failed due to apparent fuel ingestion, causing a major over-temp. The noise was mistakenly attributed to a blown tire, so the pilot left the gear down. This required MAX Afterburner on the remaining engine to recover, except the engine had a afterburner blowout, and didn't provide MAX power and the jet departed controlled flight due to low speed.
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Why is 299.792.458 m/s instantaneous from your reference frame? Like the OP, I don't understand.
Sounds like MakeGamesWithUs has installed an Apple Koolaid dispenser in the break room